Robin pulled forth an Irish kniffe, And nicked sir Guy in the face, 170 That he was never on woman born, Cold tell whose head it was.
He took sir Guys head by the hayre, 165 And sticked itt on his bowes end: Thou hast beene a traytor all thy liffe, Which thing must have an ende.
But quhen the ladye see the fire Cum flaming owre hir head, She wept and kist her children twain, 115 Sayd, Bairns, we been but dead.
Thou art a madman, said the sheriffe, 205 Thou sholdest have had a knights fee: But seeing thy asking hath beene soe bad, Well granted it shale be.
The year 1867 was memorable as seeing the publication of the first instalment of the Folio Manuscript under the editorship of J.
Secretary of the Admiralty in the reigns of Charles II.
In 1858 William Edmondstoune Aytoun published his Ballads of Scotland, which contain collated versions of one hundred and thirty-nine ballads, with short introductions.
Had Bishop Percy's correspondence with Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes, been preserved, some interesting information would no doubt have been obtained regarding these ballads sent from Scotland.
I might ha spared that bonnie face To hae been sum mans delyte.
No mortall man, with sweat of browe, or toile of minde, But onely God, who can do all, that herbe doth finde.
Of the Waterlilies, we receive a still more generalised account: "Nenufar is an herbe that groweth in water, and hath large leves and hath a floure in maner of a rose, the rote thereof is called treumyan and is very bygge.
Concerning the Plantain we read, "The rote of this herbeis mervalous good agaynst the payne of the headde, because the signe of the Ramme is supposed to be the house of the planete Mars, which is the head of the whole worlde.
Of Shepherd's Purse he says, "This herbe hathe a small stalke and full of braunches and ragged leves and a whyte flowre.
And this herbe hathe senowes on his leves as hath Plantayne, and it hathe yelowe floures and bereth blacke berys, and it groweth in dry woodes.
For instance, "That Plant that is called Adders tongue, because the stalke of it represents one, is a soveraigne wound Herbe to cure the biting of an Adder.
This herbe hathe leves lyke to Ferne, but the leves be smaller, and it groweth on walles and stones, and in ye myddes of ye lefe is as it were blacke heere.
The Grete Herball, on the other hand, vouchsafes only the meagre information, "Capillus veneris is an herbe so named"!
Of the first the herbalist writes, "This herbe hathe leves somdele reed lyke unto ye leves of Orage.
And God sawe that it was good And God sayd: let the erth bringe forth herbe and grasse that sowe seed/ and frutefull trees that bere frute every one in his kynde/ havynge their seed in them selves vpon the erth.
And so," he concludes somewhat breathlessly, "none herbe is so nedefull to so many dyurrse uses to mankynde as is the flexe.
This herbe groweth at douer harde by the Sea-syde.
And to conclude, it is from Parkinson we learn that "Queen Elizabeth of famous memorie did more desire medowsweet then any other sweete herbe to strewe her chambers withall.
The vertue of this herbe is thus, if it be rosted in the ashes in red docke leaves or in red wort leaves it fretteth awai dead flesh of a wounde.
A treatise on the virtues of Herbs; beginning "Agnus castus ys Anglice herbe that men cally the tutsayne or ells parkelenus.
Perwynke when it is beat[=e] unto pouder with wormes of ye earth wrapped aboute it and with an herbe called houslyke it induceth love between man and wyfe if it bee used in their meales .
Of the lily he says: "The Lely is an herbe wyth a whyte floure.
Agnus castus ys an herbe that me clapys Tustans or Porke levys.
Of such estimation is this herbe amongst them that the downe thereof is not lawfull to be worne, but of such persons as are about the king, .
Faid'herbe stated that when he lived in Senegal there were two powerful negro tribes in the countries on the upper Niger having a political organization of relative advancement.
The morning of the twenty-seventh was mostly taken up with a report from General Faid'herbe on the dolmens of Algeria.
General Faid'herbe assigned a historic epoch to the origin of the dolmens.
Gower, describing the star Pleiades, says-- "Eke his herbe in speciall The vertuous Fenel it is.
Gower mentions it as the flower of the star Canis Minor-- "His stone and herbe as saith the scole Ben Achates and Primerole.
Cole says of ligustrum, "This herbe is called Primrose.
Gower says of the Star Alpheta-- "His herbe proper is Rosmarine;" Conf.
Herbe orijam and Thyme and Violette Eke Affodyle and savery thereby sette.
There he arriving around about doth flie, From bed to bed, from one to other border; And takes survey, with curious busie eye, Of every flowre and herbe there set in order.
To paint their faces not for amiablenesse, but for terriblenesse, the Britons in old time vsed, and that with a kind of herbe like vnto plantine.
There is an herbe which in Dutch is called Melden.
Another mark of distinction was a "certain downe, which groweth vp in the countrey vpon an herbe much like our lectuce, which exceeds any other downe in the world for finenesse, and beeing layed vpon their cawles, by no winds can be remoued.
Whereupon hanged two crownes, a bigger and a lesser, with three chaines of a maruellous length, and often doubled, besides a bagge of the herbe Tabáh.
Votre rival vous coupera l’herbe sous le pied = Your rival will cut you out, will take the wind out of your sails, will cut the ground from under your feet.
L’herbe sera bien courte s’il ne trouve à brouter = It will go hard if he does not pick up a living; He would live on nothing.
L’herbe sera bien courte s’il ne trouve à brouter = He would live on nothing; It will go hard if he does not pick up a living.
No herbe maie be compared therewith," says one of the oldest Herbals, "for his singular virtue to help the sicknesse or grief of the splene.
There be those also who thinke that if the herbe be but carried about by one that hath the piles the paine forthwith ceaseth.
Pliny said: "It is an herbe good as wine to make the heart merrie.
The title Samphire is derived from the French Herbe de St. Pierre, because the roots strike deep in the crevices of rocks.
In Brittany the plant is namedHerbe de la croix, and, because the crucifix was made from its wood when a tree, it is thought to have become degraded to a parasite.
Of such virtue is this herbe that if it be given to drink to the wildest beast that is, it will tame the same and make it gentle.
In France the sobriquet herbe du seige, given to this plant, is said to have been derived from its famous use in healing all sorts of wounds during the long siege of Rochelle under Louis XIII.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "herbe" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
